Hello from Alaska!

[fredintoon]

Negative trikie

Hi CruisingRam,
tell your balance challenged buddy that trikies are a snare & a delusion.
What he needs is a sidecar.
If you can't find a used one to buy where you are, any clown with half a brain & a stick welder can build a sidecar frame from 2" square tube and a utility trailer rubber-in-torsion stub-axle assembly.
(I know they only sell them in pairs and you only want one. T,SIU.)
A decent sidecar body, needing a seat, windshield, etc is more difficult; think about a cargo box instead, one of those aluminum checkerplate pickup truck cross-boxes will just bolt straight on.
Fred Hill, S'toon.

[CruisingRam]

I showed him your post and agree with it personally - but he is pretty hooked on the trike I guess LOL- been dreaming it about it for some time kinda thing.

[fredintoon]

Coincidence

Hi 'Ram,
check out the June edition of Cycle Canada mag. It has an article about the Lehman Monarch II which is a Honda Goldwing trike conversion. This is a top of the line conversion, $15,000 plus you gotta buy the 'wing on top of that.
Lehman also sell conversion kits.
My main beef about trikes is that they have three tracks.
I dunno about the highways in Alaska but here in SK what ain't bumps in the road is potholes.
With a solo you can swerve round them and with a sidecar rig you can bridge them but on a trike one or another wheel is more or less bound to hit one.
Fred Hill, S'toon.

[CruisingRam]

I have been on a number of chopper sites- and it looks like I got it scienced out- a shaftie is actually much easier to turn into a trike than a chain drive.

I just fab up a small subframe to put a ladder bar race car suspension and some fiber body work for extra storage and seating LOL

I have driven trikes, but I was driving them on dirt first- up here, they were super big before the four wheelers came out.

Never had any more or less problem with the road divots than in the winter with a dually truck LOL